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Reprint as at 19 February 2020 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity— Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015 (LI 2015/27) Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015: revoked, on 19 February 2020, by clause 3.

Pursuant to section 54 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the Minister of Health, being satisfied of the matters set out in section 54(3) of that Act, gives the following notice.
Contents Title Commencement Revocation of this notice Declaration of protected quality assurance activity Schedule Description of quality assurance activity Page 1 1 2 2 2 Title Notice This notice is the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015.

Commencement This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.
1 2 3 4 1 2 Note Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.
1 cl 3 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity— Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015 Reprinted as at 19 February 2020 3 Revocation of this notice This notice is revoked at the end of the period for which it remains in force under section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003.

4 Declaration of protected quality assurance activity The quality assurance activity described in the Schedule is protected.
Schedule Description of quality assurance activity cl 4 1 Interpretation In this schedule,— activity means the quality assurance activity described in clause 4 Midlands Health Network means Midlands Health Network Limited near miss incident means an event that— (a) (b) nearly leads to avoidable physical, emotional, or psychological harm to a patient; and results from the care provided, or not provided, by 1 or more health practitioners, rather than from the patient’s underlying medical condition participant means a health practitioner who provides health services at a general practice that is a member of Pinnacle Incorporated patient safety incident means an event that— (a) (b) leads to avoidable physical, emotional, or psychological harm to a patient; and results from the care provided, or not provided, by 1 or more health practitioners, rather than from the patient’s underlying medical condi- tion.
2 Objective The objective of the activity is to improve the practices and competence of par- ticipants by participants reporting and reflecting on patient safety incidents and near miss incidents.

Information The activity is based on information derived from the participants.
Activity The activity involves— 3 4 2 Reprinted as at 19 February 2020 Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity— Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015 Explanatory note (a) participants recording patient safety incidents and near miss incidents; and (b) participants sharing that information with Midlands Health Network; and (c) Midlands Health Network analysing and documenting the information; and (d) Midlands Health Network reporting trends in the information to the general practices that are members of Pinnacle Incorporated; and (e) participants reflecting on the incidents and trends.
Dated at Wellington this 12th day of February 2015.

Hon Jonathan Coleman, Minister of Health.

Explanatory note This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This notice, which comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette, declares the quality assurance activity undertaken by members of Pinnacle Incorporated to be protected.
The effect of this declaration is that— • • • any information that becomes known solely as a result of the activity is confi- dential; and any documents brought into existence solely for the purposes of the activity are confidential; and people who engage in the activity in good faith are immune from civil liability.

The protections afforded by this notice are subject to certain statutory exceptions.
For example, this notice does not prohibit the disclosure of information that does not identify, either expressly or by implication, a particular individual.

Under section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, this notice remains in force for a period of 5 years after the date on which it is issued, unless it is revoked before then.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 19 February 2015.


3 Notes Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity— Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015 Reprinted as at 19 February 2020 Reprints notes 1 General This is a reprint of the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Pin- nacle Incorporated) Notice 2015 that incorporates all the amendments to that notice as at the date of the last amendment to it.
2 Legal status Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment.

Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act.

A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official elec- tronic version also has official status.
3 Editorial and format changes Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sec- tions 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012.

See also http://www.pco.parlia- ment.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.

4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—Pinnacle Incorporated) Notice 2015 (LI 2015/27): clause 3 Wellington, New Zealand: Published under the authority of the New Zealand Government—2020 4